Bucs QB Jameis Winston's civil lawsuit officially closes

Last week, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston and the woman who accused him of sexual assault formally filed for their lawsuits against each other to be dismissed. The joint motion for dismissal was filed on Friday after both parties reached a compromise with contingencies last month.

According to the Tampa Bay Times, documents filed in the U.S. District Court’s Middle District of Florida have revealed that the case was officially closed on Tuesday by Judge Paul G. Byron.

“In legalese, Byron granted last week’s joint motion to dismiss a sexual battery lawsuit filed by Zephyrhills’ Erica Kinsman, and Winston’s defamation countersuit against Kinsman,” Tampa Bay Times’ Matt Baker wrote. “The suits have been dismissed with prejudice, so they cannot be refiled. Terms of the settlement (agreed to last month) have not been disclosed.”

This is the final step in a case that dates back to 2012 when Winston was involved in a highly publicized alleged rape case during his time in college when Erica Kinsman, a former FSU student, accused him of sexually assaulting her at his apartment in December 2012 in Tallahassee, Florida. He was never charged with the crime and was not found responsible for sexual misconduct following a FSU student conduct hearing in December 2014.

In April 2015, two weeks before the Bucs drafted Winston, Kinsman filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress. A month later, Winston filed the countersuit for defamation.

Kinsman’s lawsuit was scheduled to go to trial in U.S. District Court in Orlando, Florida, on April 3rd. Instead, attorneys for both parties filed joint motions to dismiss the case which has now officially been closed.

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